MGM has become the latest movie studio to put support behind Sony's Blu-Ray Disc format. Blu-Ray is competing again HD-DVD, developed and promoted by a Toshiba-led group to become the next generation DVD standard. With the forthcoming availability of high definition movies and next generation games, the change from the DVD format is necessary due to demands for larger storage capacity. Both formats use blue lasers, which have a shorter wavelength than red lasers, allowing for data storing at high densities.
"MGM's library coming to Blu-ray is certainly a nice feature in the Blu-ray's camp," said Gerry Kaufhold, analyst with In-stat. The format war has been very eventful so far, especially recently when Warner Bros. and Paramount decided to release movies in both formats, whilst actually backing the Blu-Ray format. Also Intel and Microsoft backed the HD-DVD format and demanded that the Blu-Ray camp implement more "consumer friendly" features that were already included in the HD-DVD format.
Source:
Reuters

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